Any suggestions! (sitdham)

[Klaus Karttunen]

gruenendahl wrote:
>
> Dear colleague,
> since you invited ANY suggestions, I venture a wild guess:
> could this spelling point to a source ms. in a South Indian script,
> e.g. Malayalam, where -d conjuncts / ligatures are frequently built
> with -t?

I have notes the same peculiarity in some Grantha manuscripts.
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